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Custer National Forest 



The West Rosebud is a disturbed area with a dam on Mystic 

 Lake. When work is progressing a helicopter transports materials 

 up the West Rosebud drainage for construction work on the dam. 

 Below the dam and down to Lake Emerald, the W. Rosebud is white- 

 water and also as it leaves Lake Emerald there exists a high 

 gradient flow. Then it slows and the stream bed widens toward 

 Pine Grove picnic ground. Huckleberry Cr. flowed down a fairly 

 steep gradient, until approximately 100 meters before flowing 

 into Mystic Lake. 



The whole Stillwater River drainage was burned from the 1988 

 fires. If trees are an important component, they are lacking. 

 The undergrowth is coming back well, but the river is open and 

 less remote. The creeks which include Glacier, Clarks, 

 Horseshoe, Wounded Man, Flood, Falls, and Storm, are primarily 

 high gradient, open streams. They contain many logs forming 

 pools and large boulders. 



On the West Fork Stillwater River, feeding areas and loafing 

 sites were lacking. The gradient was too high at the higher 

 reaches towards Chalice Peak. There were willows and a meadow 

 section below Divide Creek, and towards Initial the river flowed 

 through a steep rocky section to a meandering stream through 

 Horseman Flats. The creeks observed on the W. Fork Stillwater 

 river, were all high gradient and had really low water flows this 

 time of the year. The main channel of Divide Cr. was completely 

 dry where it crossed the trail and Lightning Creek's main channel 

 was dry. Iron, Initial, and Cathedral creeks all contained many 



